Eldamo : Noldorin : thûl

N. thûl n. “breath” (Category: to Breathe; Breath)

N. thûl, n. “breath” (Category: to Breathe; Breath)

A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “breath” derived from the root ᴹ√THŪ “puff, blow” (Ety/THŪ). As written in The Etymologies, the actual form was thūl (EtyAC/THŪ).

Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, Tolkien gave G. fest “breath, breathing” (GL/35), likely derived from the early root ᴱ√ǶEHE “breathe” (QL/41) with ƕ becoming f.

References ✧ Ety/THŪ; EtyAC/THŪ

Glosses

“breath” ✧ Ety/THŪ (thūl)

Variations

thūl ✧ Ety/THŪ

Changes

thûl »» thūl “breath” ✧ EtyAC/THŪ

Element In

ᴺS. !úthúlui “breathless”

Cognates

ᴹQ. súle “breath; spirit” ✧ Ety/THŪ

Derivations

< ᴹ√THŪ “puff, blow” ✧ Ety/THŪ

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ√THŪ > thūl

[tʰūle] > [θūle] > [θūl]

✧ Ety/THŪ

G. fest n. “breath, breathing” (Category: to Breathe; Breath)

See N. thûl for discussion.

Reference ✧ GL/35 ✧ “breath, breathing”

Element In

G. ufestog “breathless” ✧ GL/35
G. festa- “to breath[e]” ✧ GL/35

Derivations

< ᴱ√ǶEHE “breath; die, expire”